| MUTABLE | Cross nurses flap, being volatile (7) |
| LAPEL | Flap, being emotional in extremis after drink |
| TEMPERAMENTAL | A crazy mood starts being volatile (13) |
| HOTHEADED | Curbed weeds around the poster, being volatile (3-6) |
| NATIONS | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| CLIMATE | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| UREIDES | I'd reuse volatile compounds (7) |
| NAPHTHA | An inverted scale that almost indicates "volatile substance" (7) |
| CAROTID | Volatile dictator forgetting one-time head supplier (7) |
| ETHANAL | Volatile liquid essential to Elizabethan alehouses (7) |
| TOLUENE | Colourless volatile flammable liquid used as a solvent (7) |
| MOMENTS | For most volatile men, within instants (7) |
| IODISED | I treated dioxides, volatile, with variable light (7) |
| SURPLUS | Excess sulphur's volatile without hydrogen (7) |
| SALTIER | What might be volatile row becomes even more piquant (7) |
| CAREFUL | Watch out! Motor fuel is volatile (7) |
| AVENGER | Seen in temper, case of volatile nemesis (7) |
| ETHANOL | Volatile flammable liquid (7) |
| BENZENE | Volatile liquid hydrocarbon present in petroleum (7) |
| ACETONE | Colourless volatile ketone used as an organic solvent (7) |
